JISC e-Framework Innovation Knowlegebase

An Overview

David Millard (University of Southampton)Tom Franklin (Franklin Consulting)

Who is IK for• for synthesis

• to work with their clients

• to locate relevant work

• to locate services etc

JISC programme managers

Business Analysts

Project staff

Software architects

What is the Innovation Knowledgebase?

• A place to capture activity and outputs– Using Wiki pages and ad-hoc links

• A place to make sense of the domain– Using managed structures and views

• A place to discover and learn about the domain– Browsing the Wiki– Views of the IK– Queries and Search Reality (of the Domain)

Wiki – reflecting reality

IK – understanding reality

What is it

Bridge

The InnovationBase Wiki

• A first port-of-call for people in the domain to record what they do

• A Wiki is unrestrictive– pages can be on anything– but users are encouraged to fit into

existing category structures…– … or extend them

• The IK will use a Semantic Wiki– In a standard Wiki the pages are typed

(categories)– In a semantic Wiki the links are typed as well– Creates a rich hypertext network that can be

queried like a database Reality (of the Domain)

Wiki – reflecting reality

IK – understanding reality

Example Rich Hypertext Network

Southampton University

(organisation) uses

R2Q2(software)

QTI(standard)

uses

How many software applications use QTI?

What is the impact of QTI? (How many organisations use software that usesQTI?)

Semantic Media Wiki

Standard Wiki Page

Semantic Wiki Extras

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== Patterns ==

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Limitations of a Wiki• Wiki’s are great for ad-hoc

and evolving structure

• But difficult to manage meaningful structures:

– Lists– Networks– Constrained Collections

• Because the users views the knowledge through a single node

Limitations of a Wiki

• A Knowledge-Base has different characteristics

– Good for managed structure and controlled development

– Higher barrier for use: needs more specialist users

• Can we couple a IK with the Wiki to get the best of both worlds?

Ontology Mk I

The ontology: Mk II

Pruned ontology

The ontology and the wiki

Ontology Wiki

Repository

Repository

Repository

e-Framework

Special relationship with the wiki where there is a 1:1 match between pages in the wiki and entities in the ontology

Learner lifecycle

With the wiki